The people who know God well - the mystics, the hermits, those who risk everything to find God - always meet a lover, not a dictator. God is never found to be an abusive father or a tyrannical mother, but always a lover who is more than we dared hope for. How different than the "account manager" that most people seem to worship. God is a lover who receives and forgives everything.

every time God forgives us, God is saying that God's own rules do not matter as much as the relationship that God wants to create with us.

Love is luring us forward...to the fullness of our own being

Faith does not need to push the river because faith is able to trust that there is a river. The river is flowing. We are in it.

Maturity is the ability to joyfully live in an imperfect world.

In the last years, I've been reading the Eastern fathers, the older mystical writings, a rich, deep, and truly traditional Christianity which most Western Christians know almost nothing about. It is very mystical and prayer centered Christianity, with a strong social conscience.

The true mystic is always both humble and compassionate, for she knows that she does not know.